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thoughtportal · 1 year

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simpsons did it.

#in the news today #simpsons #frinkiac #barbie #us presidency #us presidents #barbie movie

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warsofasoiaf · 6 months

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Do you sometimes think that you're too harsh on FDR?

No, not particularly. I think the things I criticize him for are fairly self-evident.

No one denies that the internment of Japanese-Americans was a travesty, but I am annoyed at the historical minimization of FDR's role in the entire affair. He's the one who authorized it, and more importantly, he authorized it while having credible intelligence reporting that there was no threat. In historical discussions, FDR is frequently never even mentioned, almost as if paranoia and racism just spontaneously willed EO9066 into existence, as opposed to a document which he knowingly signed.

Similarly, I don't think it's contestable that FDR favored Soviet interests over American ones in his approach to Soviet policy. He took repeated efforts to stop counter-intelligence against the Soviet Union; when the Soviets were discovered to be conducting espionage against the US, his response was to inform the Soviets via back-channels rather than arrest or PNG the offenders, to maintain the relationship and avoid political blowback (since his initial recognition of the Soviet Union was contingent on ceasing espionage activity against the US). While presidents and politicians are given great leeway in interpreting what is in American public interest and frequently conflate personal political interest with the American public interest, Obama declassifying intelligence to shore up his re-election in 2012 comes to mind, I don't think there's any way to interpret his overly-accommodating attitude toward the Soviets as anything other than counter to American interest. This can't even be explained as wartime necessity, because FDR had been doing this even before 1941.

Even something as simple as the Air Mail scandal has broader ramifications. You can say that FDR was misled by George Dern who claimed that the Army Air Service pilots could fly the airmail routes, but he threw MG Foulouis under the bus in order to preserve Dern's and his own political reputation and then gave the airmail contracts to Errett Cord, his campaign contributor. That's fairly standard corruption, but the Hoover administration's awarding of the airmail contracts to campaign contributors was the reason he rescinded the contracts in the first place! The idea that "it's okay when I do it," has been a very pernicious problem when it comes to anti-corruption efforts, and the idea that the politicians will cover up the death of servicemen to save their own careers just rankles me for personal reasons.

You can like him for any number of reasons, I just feel that the historical record largely ignores FDR's blunders in favor of a purely hagiographic approach.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

#fdr #history #franklin delano roosevelt #us presidency

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amynessblog · 2 years

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✨RFK✨

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iloveamerica27 · 1 year

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I love United States of America...

#usa news #usa today #we love usa #united states #america #usa history #us presidency #us president #i love america #american history

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ibtisams · 4 months

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A report just came out from a Palestinian hostage saying he was strapped with bombs and sent into a Hamas tunnel, with Israel prepared to blow the tunnel up with his body if fighters were found inside and yet people are still making the “Hamas uses human shields” arguments that have been confirmed to be a myth with no supporting evidence

#the hostage also said the same thing happened to a 15 year old boy hostage #both of them did survive as they were pulled out of the tunnel when no fighters were found and then released a few days later #the amount of people (including the US president) who still talk about the Hamas human shields is alarming #since no one has evidence of it and we have more then one piece of evidence of Israel using human shields #palestine #🦢

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just-maverick · 3 months

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Quick question to my American mutuals, when y'all turned on the news this morning, did they mention that your country & the UK bombed Yemen because it wasn't allowing ships carrying weapons to Israel??

Israel that is currently commiting genocide against the people of Palestine.. did the news ever mention that your leaders are enabling killings of innocent women and children??

#Maverick asks #BBC News #Sky news #Israel #genocide #usa news #abc news #America supports genocide #biden 2024 #US presidency

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intersectionalpraxis · 21 days

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FU to all those attendees. Love and solidarity to the resistance -Free Palestine.

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liberty1776 · 5 months

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The Devastating Legacy of Obama's Presidency - A Point of No Return | Th...

Obama’s attack on USA. The Obama Presidency led to disaster that is Joe Biden. Obama’s success and support reflected the decline of education in the USA.

#US Presidency #President Obama #Thomas Sowell #US History

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nando161mando · 3 months

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thoughtportal · 1 year

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Noam Chomsky on the crimes of US presidents

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warsofasoiaf · 5 months

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If Donald trump is found guilty on any of the federal indictments against him, would be legally ineligible to run for President?

No. Running for federal office does not require a clean criminal record. Eugene Debs ran for President in the 1920 election after being arrested for sedition; he quite literally ran from his prison cell. Of course, no one actually expected him to be a contender - the American Socialist Party went into steep decline after 1912 (although not, as is commonly believed, because of the First Red Scare).

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

#modern politics #us presidency

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seldompathic · 2 months

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I really shouldn't listen to Snapcube when I draw

#sonic the hedgehog #sth #sonic art #shadow the hedgehog #remember- he doesn't want his highlights called gay in a derogatory way #so now hes gonna have to disappear Sonic AND the US president #that oughtta teach em a lesson #(((I'm gay and its a Dub joke please dont flame me LMFAO)))

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captain-casual · 27 days

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Next up: Biden continues to be a crusty piece of shit who ignores his voters

Story here

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palipunk · 29 days

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Not posting the whole essay-long reblog about how I'm a terrible person for not supporting Biden but I think this is funny because what great great grandmother/s are you talking about? if we're talking about my Palestinian Great Great Grandmothers, I can imagine no better way to honor their memories than refusing to endorse one of the people responsible for the destruction of their homeland. Why do white tumblrinas assume everyone is just like them?

#or my seminole gg grandmothers oh my god I am not like you!!!#You want a dem president I want the US to cease to exist we are not the same

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iloveamerica27 · 1 year

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Charming Stone Street is even more charming now with its outdoor (bubble) dining.😍🇺🇸

#we love usa #usa history #usa today #usa news #i love america #american history #america #united states #us history #us presidency

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welshaphrodite · 1 year

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I think the saddest character in the Hunger Games franchise is Mags Flanagan. She is as almost as old as the Games themselves. She won the 11th Hunger Games. Then, for the entirety of her life, for over 60 years, she was forced to relieve that same trauma year after year, trying to train kids, save kids, just like herself. Over time Mags watched the Games get more brutal, more “entertaining”. She watched her community sacrifice two children over and over again. There is nothing Mags can do but bare it. She desensitizes herself. She reaches her 80s. She is old and almost free of the pain; the trauma has formed a callous. But Mags will continue to work until she dies. This is all she has ever known.

Then, the 75th Quarter Quell is announced and Mags is back on the stage for the first time in 60 years. A reaping outfit. Her name in a glass bowl. The tension, the dread, the silence before the reading of the name -- Annie Cresta. But to Mags, it never mattered the name that was picked. She knew her hand was going up. And for the first time since she was a child, she is back in the Games.

During her the 11th Hunger Games, Mags was caged in the zoo with the other tributes. This time, she is presented with a gorgeous suite, the best food the Capitol has to offer, and the finest clothes. The 11th Hunger Games were televised on a blurry screen; now, all of Panem is going to watch her every move. Mags knows she isn’t going to win. But, as she spends the last weeks of her life walking in the shoes of every child she couldn’t save, as the trauma of her own Games is as alive and present as it has ever been, she knows that, for the first time in her long life, she was able to truly save at least one person from this fate.

Hope is a funny thing. Mags picked apart the Capitol’s logic and the heart of the Games long ago. She knows why they allow one victor, and how every tribute goes into the arena hoping its them. She knows this is unrealistic; all of Panem knows that only one will come out alive. But even as she rises into the ticking clock of the arena, that stubborn feeling flutters in her chest. Maybe she will get out of there with the rest of the rebels. But if not --

Mags looks to Johanna. To Katniss and Peeta. To Finnick. Her hope for them is stronger, steadier, than the hope for her own self-preservation. She looks into the cornucopia of weapons, the familiar ring of twenty-four tributes, and allows herself to dream that maybe, maybe, this is it. This will be the last one.

For the first time in over half a century, Mags won’t be watching the Games from the comfort and safety of a faraway room. This time, she has the chance to help directly. To be able to protect others with more than just a parachute full of supplies. To have the ability to save another life. To save multiple lives. To save all the future children of Panem.

The gong sounds.

Mags smiles.

She dives into the water.

#the hunger games #catching fire #mockingjay #mags thg #mags flanagan #annie cresta #finnick odair #johanna mason #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #district 4 #suzanne collins why did you do this to us #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #president snow

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